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| Date Born: May 8, 1786 |
Date Died: November 15, 1857 |
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| Place Born: Charleston, SC |
Place Buried: Gulf of Mexico |
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| Residence: Charleston, SC |
Occupation: Planter, Lawyer, Major in US Army |
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Studied law in Charleston, SC South Carolina House of Representatives, 1820-1822 Hamilton declined an offer from President Andrew Jackson to
become United States Secretary of War Hamilton, James, Jr., a Representative from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., May 8, 1786; completed academic studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Charleston; served in the War of 1812 as major; mayor of Charleston; member of the State house of representatives, 1819-1823; elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Lowndes; elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses, and served from December 13, 1822, to March 3, 1829; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs (Eighteenth through Twentieth Congresses); Governor of South Carolina 1830-1832; moved to Texas; appointed diplomatic agent of the Republic of Texas to France, Great Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands in 1839; was drowned on November 15, 1857, while on his way from New Orleans to Galveston. |
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